Nerf Armory

My 4 year son is into Nerf Guns. I get ambushed at least once a day it seems. Thanks to his grandparents and other family, he’s acquired many of them. There are few surfaces in my home that don’t have a bullet on it from time to time. The prior arrangement was that he tossed into the floor in the closet in the rare instances he cleans them up.

Anyways, nothing too tricky here. I used (2) pegboards that covered 16 square feet (4X4). I framed them with 3/4” secondary wood to bring it away from the wall which allows the hardware to be attached. The ammo holder is 3/4” plywood with fixed dividers. I’m not much of an artist, but I thought the Nerf stamp turned out OK.

The gun on the images far left is pretty impressive. It is fully automatic (6 “D” batteries) and shoots the 18 dart clips you can see in the ammo storage bin. It shoots about 2 darts a second. It can’t be aimed to a small target, but it can definitely shower an area.

I think he is missing my all time favorite nerf toy as a kid, the Nerf Bow and arrows. When I was about 15 I changed out the nylon string for surgical tubing and BAM those arrows would really launch. It’s Nerf or Nothing!

Good call Dennis. I’ve never felt comfortable with real guns in the house so we’re good for now. Between TV and Video Games, guns are made to be way too “cool and normal” for younger kids. I’m hoping we can keep them understanding reality vs. Hollywood is a big contrast.

Jeff the only thing you can do is raising the children with lot of love so they feel beloved and never feeling alone since mum and dad is always there so they know they can come to you nomatter what they have done or currious about

take care … I hear the next ambush is just around the corner …. :-)Dennis

Sigh. . . 2 weeks later and guns and ammo still all over the place (other than the armory that is). What can I expect? My parent’s buy my 4 year old a gun with 80 darts that shot about 3 per second. Do the math, 4 year old plus a bucket full of darts always equals chaos. To come clean, I will say about 10-20% of the mess is me returning fire. :)

Dennis. . . A water balloon catapult. . . Might just have to add that to the short list. I remember a scout in my church’s troop that I was over at the time brought a commercially made surgical tubing style launcher to camp and we had some fun bombing neighboring camp sites. I’m still not sure why the Ranger frowned on that and made us put it away. Probably the whole “Leave no Trace” theory. Tough to track broken balloons down for cleanup.

I hear they are fun too in a open officelandscape too with a size to throw small paperbullets ….. LOLthere is several L J´s who has built the different size and modells of the medieval weapons like the trebuchet

Just went to a Renaissance Festival in Charlotte with my family and parents over the weekend. My kids really enjoyed it. Lots of Princess/Fairy for my 6 year old girl and Medieval Weaponry for my 4 year old son. I was amazed at what was being sold and for how much. There were basic painted pine swords and mdf templated shields being sold for $15 bucks each. There were a LOT of kids walking around with them. I couldn’t pay that out of principle as a woodworker. Grandparents bailed my boy out with his chosen weapons. There was also some amazing catapults and trebuchets (spelled?). They weren’t the cheap toy ones. Someone put a lot of time into them.